While we were up on the roof checking the chimney flue, we had a good look at the sedum. We had seen some wispy white looking stuff, but this turns out to be dead growth from one of the summer flowering varieties. Everything else looked fine and the areas where the rolls meet are gradually dissappearing as the sedum grows across the joins.

We have suffered from a small amount of water creeping in the chimney flue. It ran down the outside of the flue pipe, suggesting there was some sealing issue with the rain collar supplied with the flue.

 What we weren’t aware of when we fitted the flue was that the collar needs high temperature silicone to ensure a totally watertight seal. So it was up onto the sedum roof and off with the collar and out with the silicon gun.

 As we had a whole tube of sealant and did not want to go up again, we put the high temperature silicon on the obvious places and the less obvious places to make sure we did not have to get the ladders out and up on the roof again in a hurry.

 Hopefully the next time it rains we will find the job has worked!

 Here’s a nice shot of the roof of the house taken from about 50 foot up, which we can zoom in on and see how the sedum is doing. It’s been up for about 6 months now and with the poor summer we have had with frequent rain we have rarely had to use the irrigation system to help it settle in.

 Here is our last close up for now. We will try to get up with a ladder to keep you updated later in the summer.

 From our close up collection of the sedum roof before the scaffold came down, more Yellow ones

 A whole gang of the cheery chaps here!

 Yet another variety on the roof.

 Here is another one, just starting to flower.

 And here is another close up of another variety in the sedum blanket.

  Here’s another cheery fellow. It’s a great shame that we will not be able to enjoy close up views like this in the future.